tmake 1.8

tmake provides a cross-platform makefile tool.
tmake is an easy-to-use tool from Trolltech to create and maintain makefiles for software projects. It can be a painful task to manage makefiles manually, especially if you develop for more than one platform or use more than one compiler. tmake automates and streamlines this process and lets you spend your valuable time on writing code, not makefiles.
Our main motivation for developing tmake was that we spent far too much time maintaining makefiles for Qt, our cross-platform GUI toolkit. Qt supports around 15 flavors of Unix, Microsoft Windows, and around 15 different C++ compilers. We looked at GNU autoconf, but it was Unix-specific and not flexible enough in our opinion. Our makefile system also had to deal with Qt meta object compiler (moc) issues. The moc program extracts meta information from C++ files and generates a C++ file with data tables etc. It takes extra work to add makefile rules for the moc and wanted to automate this task.
tmake is written in Perl and requires that you have installed perl version 5 or newer. Basic use of tmake requires no perl knowledge, but if you know perl you can extend tmake and write your own makefile templates.
Enhancements:
- Platform fixes for Tru64, Borland, Irix, HP-UX, AIX, UnixWare7 and Reliant UNIX
- Support for Intel C++
- Initial support for Qt/Embedded on FreeBSD